Gordon Marino grew up in New Jersey in a home environment he describes as “a mixture of love and violence.”
His life could have gone in any number of troublesome directions were it not for a few impactful connections he made as a young adult.
As he told me in my interview with him for The Person You Want to Be:
“I was a really disturbed kid, but one ability I had was – if someone of intelligence and a good heart reached out to me, I was able to take their hand…”
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Gordon went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and become a philosophy professor, specializing in areas such as the History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Kierkegaard.
He edited a number of philosophy texts including The Quotable Kierkegaard, Ethics: The Essential Writings, and Basic Writings of Existentialism.
He is also the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age and the popular The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age, published by HarperOne in 2018:
All the while, Gordon had a parallel career in boxing: as a fighter, a trainer, a boxing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, and a boxing coach to young men and women.
It is clear to me that Gordon has a soft spot for disadvantaged youth, and has done his best to be a mentor and guiding light to young people throughout his adult life, knowing the importance of such influences firsthand.
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